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Take an independent tack on China, Wang Yi urges South Korea’s new foreign policy chief
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has used his first official phone call with his new South Korean counterpart to call on ...
The Diplomat12h
North Korea Has ‘No Interest’ in Talking to Lee Jae-myung
For the first time since South Korea’s new president assumed office, Pyongyang explicitly nixed the Lee administration’s ...
South Korea Finance Minister Koo to target mutually beneficial US trade deal
South Korean Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday he would try to derive a mutually beneficial trade agreement with ...
South Korea Foreign Minister Cho visiting Japan, US for first meetings with allies
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Tuesday he would hold his first meeting in Tokyo with his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya since taking up his post this month before travelling to the ...
Tariffs on South Korea’s products threaten the ‘K-beauty’ boom in the US
Devoted fans of Asian cosmetics will often buy direct from Asia and wait weeks for their packages to arrive because the ...
East Asia Forum5h
South Korea’s plan to decentralise higher education excellence
To address educational inequality and stimulate regional economies, President Lee’s ‘10 SNU’ initiative must surmount ...
Yonhap News Agency on MSN2h
Seoul urges N. Korea to respond to plan to repatriate remains of national found in South
South Korea on Tuesday called on North Korea to respond to its plan to repatriate the remains of a North Korean national ...
Americans may aspire to single-family homes, but in South Korea, apartments are king
South Korea's middle-class dream of home ownership? It's not a house with a white picket fence — it's an apartment.
South Korea offers billions to help make US shipbuilding ‘great again’
South Korea proposed a massive U.S. shipbuilding partnership as Seoul looks to finalize a trade deal with Washington. The ...